Abortion
Audio: David Daleiden – The Man Behind the Planned Parenthood Exposé – “In this special edition of Ancient Faith Today, Kevin Allen speaks, in this extensive interview, with David Daleiden, the director of the Center For Medical Progress, the pro-life activist organization that planned and produced the exposé videos that have shaken the abortion industry in the United States.”
New Video: Planned Parenthood Sells “a Lot” of Aborted Babies, Buyer Wants “50 Livers a Week” by Steven Ertlelt
I’m Sick Of Your Moral Relativism by Nicole Russell – “It’s time to quit waffling: Babies are humans at conception. Period.”
Meet the New Public Face of Abortion-on-Demand: Satanists by David French
Don’t be fooled by claims that China is easing its One-Child Policy by John Smeaton
Worldview and Culture
Mayim Bialik: Hollywood is not friendly to people of faith by Sasha Bogursky
Life Is a Cabret, Old Chum by Wesley J. Smith
Absurdus Rex – The Court’s Attack on Language by John Stonestreet – “‘Why is a raven like a writing desk?’ is a famous riddle from ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ Here’s another: Why is a parking ticket like a revelation?”
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Behind the Lying Curtain
by James M. Kushiner , Executive Director, The Fellowship of St. James
www.fsj.org
In January 1973, a majority of U. S. Supreme Court Justices pretended that no one really knew when a new human life begins. Doctors said an aborted fetus was mere “tissue” or an indeterminate “clump of cells.” Subsequent advances in embryology, microbiology, and genetics have made it abundantly clear that the proper scientific answer to the question, “When is a new human being created?” is, “At conception.” Science has exposed a lie told to justify abortion.
In Russia, almost exactly one year later, in January 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was interviewed by Time about his attempts to expose the lie that the Soviet regime had not killed millions of innocent lives in its vast prison camp system. A former prisoner himself, he documented the Communist holocaust in his 1973 bombshell, The Gulag Archipelago. When asked what people could do to support him, he said:
Not with physical acts but merely by rejecting the lie, by refusing to participate personally in the lie. Everyone must stop cooperating with the lie absolutely everywhere that he sees it himself: whether they are trying to force him to speak, write, quote or sign, or simply to vote or even to read. In our country the lie has become not just a moral category, but a pillar of the state. In recoiling from the lie we are performing a moral act, not a political act; and not one that can be punished by criminal law, but an act that would have an immediate effect on our whole life.
In February, after enduring a campaign to smear and intimidate him and his family, Solzhenitsyn issued a statement: “A few weeks back there was still an honorable way out: to knowledge the truth about the past and so purge the guilt for old crimes. But convulsively, in animal terror, they decided to stand up for the lie to the end, secure behind their newspaper bastions.”
This reminds me of the current reactions by some to the Planned Parenthood videos. The defense of Planned Parenthood-and the lies with which it surrounds itself-is nothing less than shameful and disgraceful.
Those who provide abortion and those who resort to it (numbering in the tens of millions) have had to suppress their consciences. There are former abortionists and clients who now deeply regret what they did. But the conscience struggles to silence the accuser. Solzhenitsyn, however, was not silenced, but arrested and expelled from the Soviet Union in February 1974. Five days after that arrest, Russian physicist and church historian Lev Lvovich Regleson wrote a letter to his government:
Moscow, 17 February 1974.
Irresponsible rulers of a great country!
… You have still not realized … that tens of murdered millions have risen up against you…. They have long been knocking for entrance into our lives, but there was no one to open the door.
The Gulag Archipelago is the indictment … May the paralysis with which God punished your first leader [Lenin] serve as a prophetic prefiguring of the spiritual paralysis which is now inexorably advancing upon you.
… Perhaps some of you may begin to ask yourselves: And is there not One over us all who will demand a full reckoning?
Never doubt it – there is.
He will demand a reckoning. And you will answer.
… Take Russia out of the hands of Cain, and give her back to God.
Just so, America. Planned Parenthood. Congress. Supreme Court.
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This and That
Fall Reading List for Lutherans – “Start a fire in the fireplace, heat up hot water for tea and grab a book off the shelf. It’s fall reading weather, and Dr. Gene Edward Veith has created a list of quality, lay-friendly books that will stretch and shape the Lutheran mind. Download the Fall Reading List for Lutherans, and share it with your friends!”
High School Marching Band barred from playing Halftime Hymn, but fans have the last word … WATCH!
Leonards’s 60+ years at Tersteeg’s by Joshua Dixon – This is just a nice story from my local area about someone who has done his job well for 60 plus years.